Used as evidence against reality shows Celebrity - Brownsville Herald

LOS ANGELES – invite home to TV cameras to increase their popularity among the public, getting sponsorships or because they like the fame. However, for some stars of reality TV fame has brought them unexpected problems with finances or courts.

Oscar nominated actor Ryan O’Neal lived such a predicament.

spent several weeks in a Los Angeles court to prove he was the rightful owner of one of his most prized possessions. a portrait of his mistress, the actress Farrah Fawcett, painted by Andy Warhol

Part of the evidence used against him was the images that television cameras recorded for “Chasing Farrah” series and other projects where O’Neal and Fawcett allowed the cameras to get into his private life.

portrait belongs to him, a jury ruled Thursday. However, on the penultimate day of the trial, the actor had to wonder aloud what it would cost around this issue. (His lawyer said that much).

families like Kardashian and “Real Housewives” opening their doors across the country, lawyers see the famous television cameras of the reality show as a weapon that can be used against their clients.

O’Neal

problems began when a dissatisfied producer of Fawcett convinced the actress alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, the actor was not the rightful owner of the painting of Warhol.

captured images, even if they are only a few pictures, also can be used by tax collectors, auditors and others to cause trouble, said Bradford Cohen, specializing in tax matters in the firm Venable LLP attorney.

Cohen advises his celebrity clients not to participate in reality shows and cites examples of tax officials have opened based on what they saw on TV cases.

Authorities accused

Teresa and Joe Giudice, star of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” after hearing about the salary of the couple and their charges fincaron hide assets in a bankruptcy application after it aired the first season of the program.

Cohen and other lawyers

see in the pictures the same evidence that lawyers viewed the University of Texas in “Chasing Farrah.”